China Briefing Part 2: Company issues – Foreigners are the problem, says Beijing
An assessment of corporate responsibility efforts in China has produced a litany of low scores, dominated by foreign firms. But the mere fact China is measuring is a great leap forward
Sustainable business is a concept the Chinese government has started to talk about.
In the past there have been nods to the concept and some joint projects – notably the combined efforts of the British consulate in Guangzhou, the British Council and the Guangdong Human Resources Management Association. But the publication of the Corporate Social Responsibility Blue Book in November 2011 by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) was a milestone, most corporate responsibility practitioners agree. CASS is the premier academic research organisation in the social sciences in China, described by Foreign Policy magazine as the top thinktank in Asia – crucially it is affiliated with the Chinese State Council and so has a great influence on policy and also reflects Communist Party thinking.
CASS’s corporate responsibility Blue Book covers the top 100 state-owned, private and foreign companies in China, scoring them on a 100-point scale and comparing them to...
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